DNC on day two, Alan Grayson feeling blue, arsenic just for you

Balloons fall on the last night of the Democratic National Convention after Hillary Clinton's speech.

Balloons fall on the last night of the Democratic National Convention after Hillary Clinton's speech.

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Balloons fall on the last night of the Democratic National Convention after Hillary Clinton's speech.

Balloons fall on the last night of the Democratic National Convention after Hillary Clinton's speech.

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David Sutta has a wrap up

David Sutta has a wrap up

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David Sutta has a wrap up

David Sutta has a wrap up

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Jan Carabeo reports Hillary Clinton will take the stage tonight.

Jan Carabeo reports Hillary Clinton will take the stage tonight.

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A recap of Day 3 of the DNC in Philadelphia. President Obama, VP Biden and others praised Hillary Clinton at the convention. 2 Orlando survivors and the mother of one of the Pulse nightclub victims also spoke at the convention.

A recap of Day 3 of the DNC in Philadelphia. President Obama, VP Biden and others praised Hillary Clinton at the convention. 2 Orlando survivors and the mother of one of the Pulse nightclub victims also spoke at the convention.

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza has his usual list of winners and losers from the day. His big winner:

Well, of course. If Hillary Clinton does become president, she'll be the first not-so-good orator to become a Democratic president since ... Carter, maybe? Truman? Point being, Bill Clinton knows how to give a speech, and he delivered last night. But it was how he delivered that was interesting. My one complaint about Melania Trump's speech -- before all the plagiarism stuff came to light -- was that it didn't do a lot to humanize Donald Trump. That's job one of any potential first lady's speech -- make the candidate look like a human being. And that's precisely what the man who could become America's first first gentleman did. It wasn't the greatest speech he's ever given -- his speech at the 2012 DNC remains the GOAT -- but it did its job. It made Hillary Clinton, so often derided as a robotic, perfectly scripted politician, look like a human being.

Of course, just because a speech was well-written and brilliantly delivered doesn't mean that it wasn't full of hooey. The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee fact checked Clinton's speech as well as some other whoppers delivered last night.

DNC, Day Three preview: Speakers tonight will include people wounded in mass shootings, and family members of people killed in them. The new gun control is an unusual position change for the Democrats, writes the Washington Post's Phillip Rucker. Sure, they've been the party of gun control throughout the modern political era, but the issue has taken a backseat in recent years after the failure to pass gun control laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. But with recent mass shootings, Democrats are once again testing the limits of the Second Amendment.

Blast from the past: President Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin, John Hinckley Jr., will soon be a free man, writes the Washington Post's Spencer Hsu. It's been 35 years since Hinckley was locked up following the assassination attempt. Doctors say he is no longer a danger to anyone.

Vote! The deadline to register for the Aug. 30 primary race is Aug. 1, reports the Sun Sentinel's Skyler Swisher. If you register independent instead of with a party, you probably won't be able to vote in many races. Florida has open primaries only if candidates from one party are running. Almost invariably, one candidate or another believes they will benefit from a closed primary, so they get some schmoe to run as a write-in candidate, making the primary open only to members of the party. So, register to vote by Monday, and if you want to participate in one party or the other's elections, you'll probably have to register as a party member as well.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging. Yesterday, Politico Florida came out with a report that the now ex-wife of U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, reported him for domestic abuse at least four times over 20 years. The Orlando Sentinel's Steven Lemongello has followed up that report, writing that liberal groups have rescinded their endorsements of the congressman in his senatorial primary race against U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter. Meanwhile, Grayson himself shouted at a Politico reporter at the Democratic National Convention and threatened to have him arrested, reports Politico's Louis Nelson, which is exactly the kind of hot-headedness you don't want to display when you've just been accused of repeatedly beating your wife.

"Deal from strength or get crushed every time": Those were just some of the lyrics sung by the Freedom Kids at a Donald Trump rally in Pensacola in January. Lines like that delivered by red-white-and-blue clad tween girls turned the performance into an Internet sensation widely derided as a sort of crypto-fascist surrealism. Now, the father of one of those girls, as well as the group's svengali, said he will sue Trump for outstanding payments, reports the Pensacola News Journal's Kevin Robinson.

If true, it wouldn't be the first time Trump skipped town without paying his vendors, as this investigation by USA Today's Steve Reilly pointed out a month ago.

Farmer-less debate: Sparks have flown between state Senate candidates Gary Farmer and Jim Waldman over the former's accusations that the latter has an "A" rating from the NRA, which no one else acknowledges as being true. So it was going to be quite a show when the two men, along with the third Senate District 34 candidate, state Rep. Gwyn Clarke-Reed, D-Deerfield Beach, met last night at the North Broward Democratic Club for a debate.

Let Irv Serve? State Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, is facing a primary against state Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, and Emmanuel Morel. It's the first time this century that a state representative is taking on a sitting state senator from his own party. Why is Slosberg stepping up? What does Clemens want to accomplish in the Senate should he beat back Slosberg's attempted overthrow? I've got answers in my story.

Arsenic at new pace: Florida's Environmental Regulation Commission voted 3-2 Tuesday to update Florida's water-quality guidelines for the first time since 1992. The new guidelines will regulate far more chemicals, reports the News Service of Florida's Jim Turner, but it will also allow higher levels of some chemicals that are already being regulated, including arsenic and benzene, a chemical used in fracking, which commissioners say did not factor into their decision whatsoever.

There are currently two empty seats on the commission, so the 3-2 vote particularly concerned environmentalists, who said it should wait for a full panel to be appointed.

Just busted guys with 144 counterfeit credit cards that use stolen financial info. See what they were trying to buy: bit.ly/2ah30om

≥140 CHARACTER HOT TAKE: Conjures a hilarious image of a trench-coated, sunglass-wearing Adam Putnam leaping out of the bushes and slapping cuffs on these guys at a gas station. Oh, spoiler alert: They were stealing gas.